John Lenthall (shipbuilder)
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John Lenthall was an American shipbuilder and naval architect. He was responsible for the construction and repair of United States Navy ships during the American Civil War, as well as in the years imm
USS Decatur.
USS Constellation of 1854, effectively a new ship John Lenthall designed to rebuild the earlier USS Constellation of 1797.
An 1865 illustration of USS Dunderberg.
Grave of Lenthall at Rock Creek Cemetery
City-class ironclad
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The Pook Turtles, or City-class gunboats to use their semi-official name, were war vessels intended for service on the Mississippi River during the American Civil War. They were also sometimes referre
John Lenthall (shipbuilder)
…devote his own time to ocean-going ships. Pook and Eads in turn modified Lenthall's design to produce the first American ironclad warships, the seven City-class ironclad gunboats that served on rivers in what is now the central United States as the core of the U.S. Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla, later transferred…
USS Baron DeKalb in 1862
City-class ironclads in Illinois
The Submarine No. 7
City-class ironclads under construction at St. Louis, Missouri in 1861.